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Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Term Rabbis
Introduction

1. "Behold Israel According to the Flesh": On Anthropology
and Sexuality in Late-Antique Judaisms

2. Dialectics of Desire: "The Evil Instinct Is Very Good"

3· Different Eves: Myths of Female Origins and the Discourse
of Married Sex

4· Engendering Desire: Husbands, Wives, and Sexual Intercourse

5· Lusting After Learning: The Torah as "the Other Woman"

6. Studying Women: Resistance from Within the Male Discourse

7· (Re)producing Men: Constructing the Rabbinic Male Body

Concluding Forward: Talmudic Study as Cultural Critique
Bibliography
General index
Index of Primary Jewish Texts

Carnal Israel Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 30/08/1995
      ISBN13: 9780520203365, 978-0520203365
      ISBN10: 0520203364
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      A Note on the Term Rabbis
      Introduction

      1. "Behold Israel According to the Flesh": On Anthropology
      and Sexuality in Late-Antique Judaisms

      2. Dialectics of Desire: "The Evil Instinct Is Very Good"

      3· Different Eves: Myths of Female Origins and the Discourse
      of Married Sex

      4· Engendering Desire: Husbands, Wives, and Sexual Intercourse

      5· Lusting After Learning: The Torah as "the Other Woman"

      6. Studying Women: Resistance from Within the Male Discourse

      7· (Re)producing Men: Constructing the Rabbinic Male Body

      Concluding Forward: Talmudic Study as Cultural Critique
      Bibliography
      General index
      Index of Primary Jewish Texts

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